Roman sophist and Academic skeptic philosopher (c.80–c.160)

Favorinus (c. 80 – c. 160 AD) was a Roman sophist and skeptic philosopher who flourished during the reign of Hadrian and the Second Sophistic. He was of Gaulish ancestry, born in … Wikipedia
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Wikipedia
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Favorinus - Wikipedia
September 25, 2025 - Favorinus (c. 80 – c. 160 AD) was a Roman sophist and skeptic philosopher who flourished during the reign of Hadrian and the Second Sophistic. He was of Gaulish ancestry, born in Arelate (Arles).
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Wikisource
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1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Favorinus - Wikisource, the free online library
November 17, 2016 - ​FAVORINUS (2nd century A.D.), Greek sophist and philosopher, flourished during the reign of Hadrian. A Gaul by birth, he was a native of Arelate (Arles), but at an early age began his lifelong travels through Greece, Italy and the East. His extensive knowledge, combined with great oratorical ...
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IMPERIUM ROMANUM
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Favorinus of Arelate « IMPERIUM ROMANUM
October 9, 2021 - Favorinus of Arelate (today Arles in the south of France) lived in the years around 80-160 CE and was a famous sophist and philosopher. Although he was Gaul, he mastered Greek to perfection, which made him an acknowledged and admired orator.
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Oxford Reference
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Favorinus - Oxford Reference
(c. ad 85–155),sophist, philosopher, and man of letters. Born in Gallic Arelate, he learned Greek, and worked only in that language throughout his professional career. His speaking tours took him to Athens, Corinth, and Ionia, where he contracted ...
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Encyclopedia Britannica
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Favorinus | Stoic, Cynic & Skeptic | Britannica
September 26, 2025 - While in Rome, he held high office under Emperor Hadrian but, later, falling into disfavour, was exiled to Chios until the end of Hadrian’s reign, at which time he returned to Rome and recovered his status. ... Favorinus wrote philosophical discourses, declamations, a Miscellaneous History, and memoirs.
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Bible History
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Favorinus in Wikipedia - Bible History
Favorinus of Arelata (ca. 80–160 AD) was a Hellenistic sophist and philosopher who flourished during the reign of Hadrian. He was of Gaulish ancestry, born in Arelate (Arles). He is described as a hermaphrodite (ανδροθηλυς) by birth.
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SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
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Favorinus Was A Hermaphrodite Tried for Adultery (Philostratus, Lives of the Sophists 489) – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
September 15, 2015 - He was one who came from the Gauls in the west, from the city of Arelatus [Arles] near the Eridanus river [the Rhone]. He was born double-formed, that is, a hermaphrodite, and this was clear also in his appearance since his face was beardless ...
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Favorinus tsuruganus - Wikipedia
October 15, 2025 - The cerata have black tips with the digestive gland duct being orange, a distinguishing feature of this species. This species occurs in Japan, more rarely in eastern Australia down to around Sydney, and has a wide western Pacific distribution. Favorinus tsuruganus feeds on the eggs of a wide range of other opisthobranchs, in particular, Hexabranchus.
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Cambridge Core
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Favorinus: My Ancient Roman dinner guest « Classics# « Cambridge Core Blog
March 8, 2021 - I probably should be naming some mighty and mysterious genius, one of the great philosophers I study or a mostly-lost tragic poet, but it would feel wrong somehow. To be honest, dinner with Plato or Aristotle is too mind-boggling a prospect. So I’ll just go with someone who would be excellent company: Favorinus.
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Oxford Academic
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6 Favorinus | Aulus Gellius - Oxford Academic
November 6, 2003 - It also reviews Gellius's representation of his achievements in rhetoric, philosophy, and general learning, a representation that extends to attempts at reproducing his Greek style in Latin translation; and considers how far Gellius is to be trusted in portraying his master as well-informed but not infallible in matters of Latin language and Roman law. Finally, the Gellian Favorinus is considered as a social being, delightful company even if never praised for gravitas.
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Fandom
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Twenty-Nine Officials of Aureatia | Ishura Wiki | Fandom
October 29, 2024 - The Twenty-Nine Officials of Aureatia (黄都二十九官, Kōto Nijūkyū-kan) is a former wartime council and the current main locus of governmental power in the kingdom of Aureatia. While their nation ostensibly remains a monarchy under the rule of Queen Sephite, true political power rests ...
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Perseus Digital Library
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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, Faba'tus, Calpu'rnius, Fa'nnia, Favori'nus
The two sophists attacked each other in their declamations with great bitterness and animosity. The oratory of Favorinus was of a lively, and in his earlier years of a very passionate kind.
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r/Ishura on Reddit: 29 officials
July 15, 2024 -

Anime watcher here I love Ishura, love the art and animation. Especially that of the 29 officials, I love the politics and governance side of the series. I’m highly invested in the 29 officials. It’s all i care about in the series. Can someone who has read the light novels spoil me and tell me thier specific roles within Auretia. I know that they there are the true political rulers and they each have thier own territory. There are a mix between civil servants and military officials. But I see Hidow the Clamp ( My favorite so far ), Enu the distant mirror are civil servants but have thier own military and soldiers they command even though they are not generals. Elea the red tag is in charge of the intelligence department. What are the other ministers specialties ? What territories do they rule? How did they get their names?

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from the q&a: For those who have left their position, the government officials below act as heads in their stead. First Minister Grasse the Foundation Map - Internal Affairs Ministry Second General Rosclay the Absolute - Personnel Bureau (Underneath Internal Affairs Ministry) Third Minister Jelky the Swift Ink - Trade Ministry Fourth Minister Kaete the Round Table - Industrial Ministry Fifth Official Iriolde the Atypical Tome (Vacant) - Foreign Affairs Ministry Sixth General Harghent the Still - Air Defense Bureau (Underneath Defense Ministry) Seventh Minister Flinsuda the Portent - Health Ministry Eighth Minister Sheanek the Word Intermediary - Education Ministry Ninth General Yaniegiz the Chisel - Police Agency (Underneath Internal Affairs Ministry) Tenth General Qwell the Wax Flower - Fire Defense Agency (Underneath Health Ministry) Eleventh Minister Nophtok the Crepuscule Bell - Order Bureau (Underneath Education Ministry) Twelfth General Sabfom the White Weave - Disaster Prevention Bureau (Underneath Construction Ministry) Thirteenth Minister Enu the Distant Mirror - Construction Ministry Fourteenth General Yuca the Halation Gaol - Public Safety Bureau (Underneath Internal Affairs Ministry) Fifteenth General Haizesta the Gathering Spot - Inspection Bureau (Special Organization) Sixteenth General Nofelt the Somber Wind - Geographical Bureau (Underneath Construction Ministry) Seventeenth Minister Elea the Red Tag - Information Bureau (Underneath Defense Ministry) Eighteenth Minister Quewai the Moon Fragment - Technology Agency (Underneath Trade Ministry) Nineteenth Minister Hyakka the Heat Haze - Agriculture and Forestry Bureau (Underneath Trade Ministry) Twentieth Minister Hidow the Clamp - War Damage Reconstruction Agency (Underneath Internal Affairs Ministry) Twenty-First General Tuturi the Blue Violet Foam - Communication Bureau (Underneath Defense Ministry) Twenty-Second General Mizial the Iron-Piercing Plumeshade - Physical Education Bureau (Underneath Education Ministry) Twenty-Third Official Taren the Punished ( Vacant) - Frontier Development Bureau (Underneath Foreign Affairs Ministry) Twenty-Fourth General Dant the Heath Furrow - Palace Guard Bureau (Special Organization) Twenty-Fifth General Cayon the Thundering - Transport Agency (Underneath Trade Ministry) Twenty-Sixth Minister Meeka the Whispered - Justice Ministry Twenty-Seventh General Haade the Flashpoint - Defense Ministry Twenty-Eighth Minister Antel the Alignment - Finance Agency (Underneath Trade Ministry) Twenty-Ninth - Vacant
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If I'm not mistaken, in a Q&A session the author explained about the officials and departments.
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Oxford Academic
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7 Favorinus: The Man of Paradoxes - Oxford Academic
October 31, 2023 - *, Leofrance Holford-Strevens, 'Favorinus: The Man of Paradoxes', in Jonathan Barnes, and Miriam Griffin (eds), Philosophia Togata II: Plato and Aristotle at Rome (
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Cambridge Core
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Favorinus' Corinthian Oration in its Corinthian context* | The Cambridge Classical Journal | Cambridge Core
February 28, 2013 - In doing so he was addressing the inhabitants of a city which occupied an unusual – in many ways unique – position between Greek and Roman identity: Corinth had been sacked by Roman forces in 146 BC, and then refounded as a Roman colony more than one hundred years later, and even in the second century AD it was still sometimes represented as a Roman intrusion within the Greek world, even though it had been strongly influenced by the Greek populations surrounding it in the intervening years. My aim in this article is to examine Favorinus' Corinthian Oration in the light of the cultural ambiguities of its setting.